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Members will plan how to come to each other’s aid in the event of an attack as Nato faces worst crisis in its history

Brussels officials will draw up a plan on how to use the EU’s little-known mutual assistance pact in the event of a foreign attack, as Donald Trump’s criticism of Nato intensifies.

EU leaders have agreed that the European Commission “will prepare a blueprint” on how the bloc will respond if the mutual assistance clause is triggered, according to Nikos Christodoulides, the president of Cyprus, who is hosting the talks.

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​Met het vertrek van Dennis te Kloese is Feyenoord op zoek naar een nieuwe technisch directeur. De club uit Rotterdam zoekt nadrukkelijk een kandidaat met ‘connecties in de voetbalwereld, strategisch inzicht en een ontspannen houding ten opzichte van doodsbedreigingen’.

“We zoeken vooral iemand die goed kan relativeren”, legt een woordvoerder van de club uit. “Iemand die bij extreme dreigmails meteen kan denken: ach, die mannen moeten gewoon even hun ei kwijt. Niks aan de hand.”

De club benadrukt daarin een ondersteunende rol te kunnen bieden. “Wij bieden daar uiteraard ook cursussen in aan, zoals ‘Doodsbedreiging of gewoon teleurstelling: herken de nuance’ en ‘Hoe ga ik om met een in het zwart geklede, fakkeldragende hooligan aan mijn voordeur?’”

De eerste sollicitatiegesprekken zullen worden gevoerd met de raad van commissarissen en een aantal fanatieke aanhangers van de harde kern van Feyenoord. Het liefst bij de sollicitant thuis.

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Minister Sterk (Langdurige Zorg, Jeugd en Sport) brengt van maandag 27 april tot en met vrijdag 1 mei een werkbezoek aan Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba. Tijdens haar bezoek maakt zij kennis met de zorg- en welzijninstellingen, maatschappelijke organisaties en de Bestuurscolleges van de eilanden om in gesprek te gaan over de staat van de zorg, jeugdzorg en het sociaal domein.

Uitzendbureaus, detacheerders en andere uitleners zullen bij aanvraag tot toelating Wtta hun omzet uit het voorafgaande kalenderjaar moeten opgeven. Hierdoor kan de Nederlandse Autoriteit Uitleenmarkt (NAU) de jaarbijdrage voor toegelaten uitleners vaststellen. Daarbij wordt onderscheid gemaakt naar de grootte van de onderneming: kleinere ondernemers zullen een lagere bijdrage betalen dan grotere ondernemers.

Nadezhdin told Vedomosti that he plans to campaign on a platform of a “return to normal life” in Russia.

Jade Kops, die via Instagram openhartig vertelde over haar leven met kanker, is overleden. Dat heeft haar familie bekendgemaakt op Instagram. Ze is 19 jaar geworden.

Jade Kops (10 februari 2007 – 24 april 2026) was een Nederlandse maatschappelijk influencer, auteur en jongerenactiviste uit ’s-Gravenzande in het Westland. Ze werd landelijk bekend door haar openhartige verslag van haar ziekteproces met kinderkanker en haar onvermoeibare inzet voor lotgenoten.

Ziekte en bekendheid

Op 2 juli 2021, toen ze veertien was, kreeg Jade de diagnose rhabdomyosarcoom — een agressieve tumor die liep van haar keel tot aan haar oor. In september 2024 hoorde ze dat ze niet meer zou genezen. Ze deelde haar verhaal via het Instagramaccount @mijnlevenmetkanker_, dat uitgroeide tot bijna 300.000 volgers en haar in februari 2025 de Best Social Award voor Beste Instagrammer opleverde.

Maatschappelijke inzet

Samen met haar vader René richtte Jade Stichting Jade op, die via “uitwaaimomenten” in vakantiehuisjes in ’s-Gravenzande gezinnen met een ziek kind even ontspanning biedt; binnen een jaar werden zo al vijftig gezinnen geholpen. Met een eigen inzamelingsactie haalde ze daarnaast meer dan twee miljoen euro op voor het Prinses Máxima Centrum voor kinderoncologie.

Erkenning en boek

Op 16 oktober 2024 werd Jade benoemd tot Lid in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau — als jongste Nederlander ooit — en kreeg ze thuis persoonlijk bezoek van koningin Máxima. In de week van haar achttiende verjaardag, begin 2025, verscheen haar autobiografie Voor altijd jong: Mijn leven met kanker, waarin ze haar ervaringen met ziekte, behandelingen en haar persoonlijke leven beschrijft

Jade overleed op 24 april 2026, op 19-

Niet alle idioten hebben een fatbike, wel zijn alle fatbikerijders een idioot. Zonder uitzondering. Tokkies, asocialen, groepen jongeren die voorbijgangers uitkafferen, Marokkaanse vrouwenbespugers, lui die mensen van hun fiets trappen, dildo's die complete wijken terroriseren, stekers, schieters, overvallers, mishandelaars, meidenmeppers, hangsukkels, kinderen die geen opvoeding hebben gehad, tieners die geen opvoeding hebben gehad, volwassenen die geen opvoeding hebben gehad, eigooiers, geweldplegers, mensen die de Rolling Stones beter vinden dan de Beatles, personen die te achterlijk zijn om met dunne bandjes te fietsen en HO, het ligt ALTIJD AAN DE BAAS en nooit aan de fatbike, precies zoals met honden. Zo langzamerhand is het kabinet-Keenan ook een keer klaar met de Mauritsjes en Massihs die denken dat ze alles maar kunnen flikken op hun konjobrommer. Vincent Karrenmaar (VVD) kondigt 'strenge maatregelen' aan. Fatbikevrije zones, minimumleeftijd + helmplicht en dan het addertje: "Hij maakt bekend wat er de komende jaren moet gebeuren, maar het is nog niet bekend wanneer het tot concrete maatregelen komt." Oftewel: eerst mag GroenLinks nog een paar jaar zeiken dat de regels 'stigmatiserend' zijn en daarna valt er niks te handhaven omdat de politie er geen tijd voor maakt.

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De hoofdstad zet zich schrap voor de drukste nacht en dag van het jaar. Na een noodkreet van de hulpdiensten komt Amsterdam voor Koningsdag met een reeks maatregelen.

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Nice little app. En hier in Frankrijk heeft ook getallen wat verder van de nul. Grappig is wel dat peakping 196 meter +-1 en een andere app er van overtuigd is dat 226 +-10 de waarheid is .
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Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips

Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist.…

Red Bull have not had the start they might have hoped to a new era of regulations - but what can be done at Milton Keynes to get them back to winning ways?

Today's links

• A free, open visual identity for enshittification: No mere poop emoji!
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: RIAA v little girl; Portal turret Easter egg; Atari v indie games; Chabon's Phantom Tollbooth intro; The 0.1%; Well-labeled inns; "More Everything Forever."
• Upcoming appearances: London, Berlin, NYC, Barcelona, Hay-on-Wye, London, NYC.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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A free, open visual identity for enshittification (permalink)

To my surprise, my life's work has turned out to be a long series of attempts to get people to engage with the abstract, distant issues of tech policy before it's too late. This is hard, because people naturally devote their attention to things that are concrete and immediate (for very good reasons!).

For nearly 25 years, I've worked with my comrades at the Electronic Frontier Foundation to raise the salience of these abstract, technical ideas. I've come up with metaphors, parables, framing devices, narratives, and then…a dirty little word: enshittification. It turned out that this word, and the minor license to vulgarity it confers, was the secret to unleashing a tide of interest in these issues, to my immense surprise and gratification.

But I don't confine my efforts to coming up with words to engage people on these matters. For several years now, I have been developing myself as a collagist, combining public domain images with Creative Commons-licensed materials to create several collages every week that aim to illustrate these abstract, technical issues in an engaging, visual way:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/albums/72177720316719208

This got a lot easier with the 2025 publication of my international bestseller Enshittification, and not just because a lot of people read that book. It was also because the US edition, from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux had a gorgeous cover:

https://mpd-biblio-covers.imgix.net/9780374619329.jpg

That cover featured a (literally and figuratively) iconic variation of the "pile of poo" emoji, with angry eyebrows and a grawlix-scrawled black censor's bar over its mouth. It was designed by the brilliant Devin Washburn of No Ideas studio:

https://www.noideas.website/

Devin's poop emoji became my go-to visual shorthand for illustrating stories about enshittification, an instantly recognizable way to identify my subject matter:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/54957634601/in/album-72177720316719208

I remixed it over and over:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/54962122121/in/album-72177720316719208

And over:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/54992219613/in/album-72177720316719208

I liked it so much I ordered a couple hundred enamel pins and a couple thousand vinyl stickers featuring the design, and handed them out for free to people I met on my 33-city book tour. Everywhere I went – and every time a video went out showing me wearing the pin – I was inundated with requests to buy this stuff. But my pins and stickers weren't merch (stuff you could buy) – they were swag (stuff I gave away). I had no interest in getting into the merch business!

But you folks kept asking, and also, I really loved that design, so I offered Devin a cash buyout for the rights to his enshittification poop emoji and then I released it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license that lets you use it any way you want, including for commercial products, provided you attribute it and link back to the original:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

And I made sure that my EFF comrades had first crack at this design, and they've made merch of it. You can get a $5 sticker:

https://shop.eff.org/products/enshittification-sticker

Or a $10 pin:

https://shop.eff.org/products/enshittification-pin

With all proceeds going to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the most profound and powerful disenshittifying force on the planet Earth!

But because this is CC licensed, you can make your own merch and swag! I made this great print-on-demand lawn flag my for front garden so I could let my enshittification flag fly:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/55025045602/

My goal here is to create a free, open, remixable visual language for talking about platform decay, not owned by me or anyone, a part of the commons. Use it to illustrate anything you want, especially if you want to analogize enshittification to other phenomena, like politics or other non-digital phenomena. Semantic drift is good, actually!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toilet-has-no-central-nervous-system

You can get the high-rez of Devin's enshittification poop emoji from the internet's three most important repositories of Creative Commons licensed work.

There's a copy on Wikimedia Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enshittification_poop_emoji_logo.png

And on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/55225631563/

And of course on the Internet Archive, along with a PSD that includes an ink-density adjustment layer:

https://archive.org/details/enshittification-poop-emoji-logo

I've supported Creative Commons literally since the very beginning. I worked with Larry Lessig, Aaron Swartz, Matt Haughey and Lisa Rein on the launch of the original licenses in 2002/3, and my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was the first book released under a CC license:

https://craphound.com/down/download/

Creative Commons is one of the most amazing feats of stunt-lawyering ever attempted, and it has been an unmitigated success, with tens of billions of works licensed CC, including all of Wikipedia. Like EFF, CC is a charitable nonprofit that depends on individual donors to keep its work going. The org turned 25 this year (along with my career as a novelist), and they've launched a giant fundraiser to carry their work forward.

As my contribution to the fundraiser, I've provided them with 375 signed, numbered copies of Canny Valley, my (otherwise) not-for-sale, extremely limited edition book of my collages, with an intro by Bruce Sterling. The book was designed by type legend John D Berry and printed at Pasadena's Typeworks, a century-old, family-owned print shop, on 100lb Mohawk paper, with a PVC binding that will last for generations:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/10/canny-valley/

CC tells me there's still some copies of Canny Valley left in the fundraiser. If you're intrigued by my collaging and want to own this very strange and beautiful little artifact, here's where to go:

https://mailchi.mp/creativecommons/were-turning-25-book-giveaway

And if you want to try your own hand at collaging – or making merch (or swag!) – help yourself to Devin's wondrous piece of poo and go to town.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• trying to do something you probably shouldn't https://backofmind.substack.com/p/trying-to-do-something-you-probably

• What Is the Point of California’s Privacy Laws if Big Tech Ignores Them? https://www.kqed.org/news/12079887/what-is-the-point-of-californias-privacy-laws-if-big-tech-ignores-them

• An Open Letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr https://chkbal.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-fcc-chairman-brendan

• A Simple Model of Online Platform Enshittification https://apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/eternalizing_septembers

• At the New School: Against Money https://jwmason.org/slackwire/at-the-new-school-against-money/

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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago Court throws out RIAA attempt to sue little girl https://web.archive.org/web/20060422232323/https://p2pnet.net/story/8603

#15yrsago Android secretly stores location data too — though less of it, and with less detail https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/04/android-phones-keep-location-cache-too-but-its-harder-to-access/

#15yrsago Portal turret Easter egg https://www.flickr.com/photos/57617475@N00/5638462322/

#15yrsago Michael Chabon’s introduction to The Phantom Tollbooth 50th anniversary edition https://web.archive.org/web/20110424055621/http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/apr/21/michael-chabon-phantom-tollbooth-wonder-words/

#10yrsago UK spy agencies store sensitive data on millions of innocent people, with no safeguards from abuse https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/uk-secret-police-surveillance-bulk-personal-datasets/

#10yrsago Zombie company Atari wants exclusive right to make haunted house games https://www.techdirt.com/2016/04/21/ex-game-maker-atari-to-argue-to-us-pto-that-only-it-can-make-haunted-house-games/

#10yrsago Hackers take $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank by pwning its $10 second-hand routers https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36110421

#10yrsago Forget the one percent, it’s the 0.1% who run the show https://web.archive.org/web/20160416022112/https://www.alternet.org/economy/1-really-problem

#10yrsago The quest for the well-labeled inn https://memex.craphound.com/2016/04/22/the-quest-for-the-well-labeled-inn/

#5yrsago EFF sues Proctorio over copyfraud https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#copyfraud

#5yrsago Fighting FLoC is compatible with fighting monopoly https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#not-that-competition

#5yrsago Moxie hacks Cellebrite https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#petard

#5yrsago Banks made bank on covid overdraft charges https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#usurers

#5yrsago The awesome destructive power of a billionaire https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#force-multiplier

#1yrago More Everything Forever https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/22/vinges-bastards/#cyberpunk-is-a-warning-not-a-suggestion

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU), Apr 25
  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/globaljusticenow/2042691

• NYC: Enshittification at Commonweal Ventures, Apr 29
  https://luma.com/ssgfvqz8

• NYC: Techidemic with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyibuchi and Alia Dastagir (PEN World Voices), Apr 30
  https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/techidemic/

• Barcelona: Internet no tiene que ser un vertedero (Global Digital Rights Forum), May 13
  https://encuentroderechosdigitales.com/en/

• Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
  https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow

• Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
  https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html

• Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
  https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2

• SXSW London, Jun 2
  https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901

• NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (The Strand), Jun 24
  https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16210039-artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disruptor

• When Do Platforms Stop Innovating and Start Extracting? (InnovEU)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccDR0YaMt8

• Pete "Mayor" Buttigieg (No Gods No Mayors)
  https://www.patreon.com/posts/pete-mayor-with-155614612

• The internet is getting worse (CBC The National)
  https://youtu.be/dCVUCdg3Uqc?si=FMcA0EI_Mi13Lw-P

• Do you feel screwed over by big tech? (Ontario Today)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/16203024-do-feel-screwed-big-tech

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Latest books (permalink)

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/)

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing: "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Third draft completed. Submitted to editor.

• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE.

• "The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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